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how to play DTS audio downloaded from the net

I'm trying to play (perfectly legal, community-distributed 5.1) audio I downloaded from the 'net.  I am having success with some of it, and some of it doesn't work properly.  In general, vlc plays about 50% of the 10 albums or so I have downloaded.  The ones it doesn't play are in a format of

*.cue
*.wav

I've tried mounting the thing and playing it with POWER DVD and VLC.  No Luck.  I know it's a good download and there are multiple albums doing this. 

I am thinking that I am doing something wrong here.  Does anyone have any advice?  Can anyone point me to a place where this sort of thing is routinely discussed?  I am interested in finding lots of community-distributed surround (the actual 96khz thing doesn't matter that much to me-- I am interested in 5.1!)  An example of what I'm looking for would be "a project called red" by stabilizer in 5.1 .  That would just be awesome to me!

Is there a format that looks to be king of 5.1 distribution online?  The current methods don't seem to be too effective. 

I know there's a lot to this post... replies to any questions are greatly appreciated.  Lastly, I'm mostly interested in 5.1-- can anyone point me to a forum for 5.1 stuff only?  I want good music to feed my good speakers !

Thanks

how to play DTS audio downloaded from the net

Reply #1 –
This seems really weird to me, but it turns out that all I had to do was rename the .wav's to .dts and they played in foobar (with the dts plugin) and VLC.  I tried that as a last-ditch effort.  I'm amazed!
 

how to play DTS audio downloaded from the net

Reply #2 –
Formats intended for efficient usage on a personal computer and straight burning to disc differ.

CUE + fake (compressed) WAV is good for burning. So is any representation of Video DVD, for example.

On a computer you better strip the WAV overhead and listen to the DTS. I would also cut it in tracks, especially if the album is not gapless, but that involves using a hex editor and is optional. I have used this wav2dts converter:

http://j7n.sytes.net/temp/DTS-2-WAV-2-DTS.rar

For playback in DirectShow you can use DTSAC3Source + AC3Filter. Another splitter promised to take fake WAV as input but I did not have success with that. Install DirectShow decoders by unpacking them to a suitable folder and running RegSvr32.exe <full_path_with_filename>.

There is also an AC3filter for Winamp.

Here's a DTS decoder for Foobar 0.8. You can use cue files in Foobar. (I don't use Foobar 0.9 due to the whole incompatibility thing with W98 and W2k)

I did not see your second post before writing this information and uploading referenced files.